MANAGEMENT IN THE HOME

Management the art of managing.

Home the place from which a person, thing, etc. comes originally.

Why is Home Management Important?

Other than cleaning your house, the idea of managing your home is probably the furthest
thing from your mind right now. Home management affects most home owners when something
goes wrong. However, home management is also an essential element of improving your home.
However, when you want to improve your home, home management will help you. Home
management is the process of preserving, protecting, improving and maintaining your home.
Although most of us think of home management as maintenance, it is really the process of making
the most of your home.

Preserving Your Home

Preservation means making something last, or keeping it alive. You perform home
preservation every time you clean your home. Painting adds beauty to your home, but also and
preserves the underlying materials. These are only a few of the things you do today to preserve
your home. Because homes are becoming more complex and technically sophisticated, it can be
difficult to know what and how to preserve.
Preservation also takes the form of beautification. Painting your walls or exterior will define your
home or interior living spaces. It also protects your drywall

Protecting Your Home

Protection means defending or guarding against attack and shielding from danger. There
are a number of dangers your home encounters every day. As a homeowner, you need to
understand threats to your home and have the ability to predict what the most common threats are
likely to be and thwart them.

Enhancing Your Home

Enhancing means raising something to a higher degree, intensifying and magnifying.
Enhancing your home is much the same. Few homeowners want to live in the same home for a
lifetime. By improving and enhancing your home, you not only increase the livability of your
home, but also increase its value over time.

What is The Best Way to Manage Your Home?

Homeowners wanting to manage their homes have two choices: manual or automated.
Manual management is the process of going it alone. If you are knowledgeable about your home,
its maintenance, this strategy might work for you. An automated solution is clearly a better choice
 in terms of costs and capabilities. In fact, an effective home management solution is a home
owner's most valuable asset.

MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS
Concept means an idea or theory.

"Home" is usually referred as a place of achieving peace, development and satisfaction for
an individual, with its management predominantly concerned with the quality of human
relationship. As soon as the family is established, all its members start thinking and working
together for common goals. This gives rise to formulate a plan of action, delegate responsibility,
organize and control the available resources to achieve the desired goals. In this context,
management becomes a means of using resources (what you have) for the attainment of family
goals (what you want). Thus, home management becomes an' essential component of family living.

So home management now is a challenge to every home maker to achieve development,

happiness and peace at home and in the community.

MANAGEMENT PROCESS

What is Management Process?

Those processes which are performed by managers are called management processes. Managers are
commonly involved in planning, organizing, directing, motivating, controlling and decision-making.

Steps in management process at home. Planning, Organizing, Controlling and Evaluating

1. Planning - thinking of all possibilities that members of the family can accomplish to realize the
set goals.

2. Organizing - the proper way of implementing activities and using resources to achieve maximum
efficiency without setbacks. Close coordination between family members must be done and a
definite person in the family must supervise.

3. Implementing - carrying out of the plans including the activities and all the resources. This is
called "from plan to action." Direct guidance and monitoring must be made to avoid waste of
energy and money.

4. Evaluating - checking and assessing whether the planned activities were carries out as planned.

Decision making

1. Decision making can be regarded as the cognitive process resulting in the selection of a course
of action among several alternative scenarios. Every decision making process produces a final
choice. The output can be an action or an opinion of choice.
 2. Decision making is an essential leadership skill. If you can learn how to make timely, well
considered decisions, then you can lead
Importance of decision making in Home Management
Making decisions for efficient home management can be very difficult. It could mean being
firm even if it hurts the feelings of a family member, or even depriving a family member or some
privileges for the good of the rest.
Decisions are often made regarding the following matters at home:
Discipline

When our parents set rules regarding curfew, watching television on weekdays, or going
out with friends, they expect us to follow these rules. When we deliberately disregard the rules,
our parents have to impose sanctions. They may decide to limit our privileges like prohibiting
weekend meetings with your friends or banning television for a certain period. Limits imposed by
parents help put a structure to our lives.

Prioritizing Expenses

The family expenses for a given period are generally classified into Needs and Wants.
Needs are expense items that the family members cannot do without. Needs include food, housing,
health maintenance, and education of the children.

Maximizing the use of available space.

When living space is limited, decisions have to be made on who will share sleeping and
storage areas. It is ideal for parents to consult their children on this matter to arrive at an
arrangement that is acceptable to everyone.
Planning Meals.

With a limited budget for family expenses, it is important to be able to decide on what food
to serve the family. Homemakers should be guided by this basic rule: buy foods that are high in
nutritive value but are inexpensive.

Process of Decision Making

The Five-Step Decision Making Process

You can adapt the familiar five-step decision making process to decide which program or service
to assess.

1. Identifying/clarifying the decision to be made. If the decision has not yet been isolated, it should
be identified as a first step. Sometimes the decision to be made will have been presented to the
decision maker. In those situations, Step 1 calls for the clarification of what the decision actually
entails.

2. Identifying possible decision options. The next step requires the decision maker to spell out, as
clearly as possible, just what the decision alternatives really are. For instance, if one were
attempting to buy a bicycle, do the decision options only consist of the different types of bicycles,
or is another option to refrain from buying a bicycle altogether?
3. Gathering/processing information. Next, the decision maker collects or processes information that
can help guide the decision. If such information is already at hand, then it simply needs to be
processed; that is, studied and understood by the decision maker. If there is no relevant information
available, or if there is insufficient information, then such information must be collected so it can
be processed. The more significant the decision, the more rigorous the information-gathering
process.

4. Making/implementing the decision. After the information has been considered according to its
relevance and significance, a decision based on that information should be made and, thereafter,
implemented.

5. Evaluating the decision. In recognition of the fact that not all of one's decisions are likely to be
defensible, the final step in the five-step decision making process is to determine whether the
decision was appropriate. Ordinarily, this will be done by ascertaining the decision's consequences.

Different Types of Decisions

When deciding on the most suitable decision-making method, it is important to consider
that full participation is not required in every occasion. You cannot expect in a group all decisions
to be made by the entire group. It would be an incredible waste of time! According to the type of
decision, a group might prefer different systems with more or less people involved.

Types of Decisions

1. Strategic relating to the identification of long-term or overall aims and interests and the means
of achieving them
2. Organizational relating to the way different aspects and parts of a group are arranged with the
aim of being more orderly and efficient
3. Operational relating to the way a group or organization works on a daily basis

Most groups seek a maximum of participation and agreement for strategic decisions, while
letting operational decisions be made in small groups or work teams.
HOME MANAGER

What is a Home Manager?

A person who is in charge of the place from which a person, thing, etc. comes originally.